From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
To: Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@googlemail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:23:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yxqpqi0h9hf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACY+HvqV-JF4i23dPV18YhPyEFuDscKCu1cMS1pDnmCBdse7Qg@mail.gmail.com> (Carsten Mattner's message of "Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:24:25 +0200")
Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@googlemail.com> writes:
> I've been wondering whether it's normal for Emacs to start with
> 10 or 20 megs and stay at ~100 megs after opening and closing
> multiple buffers.
>
> I do use ido and a couple other common modes/libs for various
> features or programming languages. Nothing fancy, really.
> I can try to test with no custom config, but won't be able to use
> it for real work, just letting it idle.
>
> Is this in the normal footprint or way out of place when
> Emacs sits there idling with not a single buffer open.
>
> Emacs versions in use are Linux with X but no toolkit and
> Cocoa Emacs, both from bzr.
>
> Does Emacs have some kind of memory reclaim or gc mechanism?
Memory can only be return back to the system in chunks (pages usually)
and only when the complete chunk becomes free. Because how the
allocation works it is possible to have on the same chunk data that is
free (like a buffer that has been killed) and data that is not: history,
lisp functions and data, so it is never completely free.
As a data point we are not doing too bad, this emacs from work:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
19053 dann 16 0 133m 129m 3864 S 0.0 1.6 177:42.07 emacs
has been running for 212 days, 3 hours, 45 minutes, 2 seconds
it has 202 open buffers, the terminal frame count has reached 678
and the memory usage is still reasonable after that much time of daily
usage .
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-13 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 9:24 Emacs bzr memory footprint Carsten Mattner
2011-10-13 10:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 10:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-13 10:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 13:08 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-13 13:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 15:22 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-13 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 16:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-13 17:33 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-10-13 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 3:09 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-10-13 16:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-13 16:59 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-13 13:13 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-13 13:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 14:10 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-13 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 15:05 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-13 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-13 16:55 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-13 17:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-14 12:11 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-14 21:02 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-15 1:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-13 17:22 ` Richard Riley
2011-10-13 16:12 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-13 20:18 ` chad
2011-10-14 12:13 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-14 12:18 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-14 15:49 ` Sven Joachim
2011-10-14 16:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-14 16:48 ` Sven Joachim
2011-10-14 17:16 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-15 18:12 ` Sven Joachim
2011-10-20 13:35 ` Nix
2011-10-20 23:02 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-21 0:19 ` Nix
2011-10-21 8:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-21 12:05 ` Nix
2011-10-21 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-21 12:47 ` Nix
2011-10-21 14:30 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-10-21 15:22 ` Nix
2011-10-21 18:29 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-10-21 18:36 ` Nix
2011-10-21 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-21 15:02 ` Nix
2011-10-21 17:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-21 19:12 ` Nix
2011-10-21 15:34 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-10-21 18:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-21 18:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-21 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-21 19:11 ` Nix
2011-10-21 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-21 20:21 ` Nix
2011-10-22 7:34 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-22 8:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-22 12:03 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-22 16:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-27 22:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-28 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 9:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-28 9:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 10:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-28 10:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 11:52 ` valgrind warnings [Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint] Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-28 14:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-28 14:38 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-28 15:17 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-28 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 16:34 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-28 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 18:52 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-28 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 15:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-04 21:11 ` Florian Weimer
2011-10-28 20:20 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-29 3:40 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-29 7:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-29 16:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-04 12:51 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-11-04 13:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-11-04 15:50 ` valgrind warnings Paul Eggert
2011-11-04 17:37 ` valgrind warnings [Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint] Stefan Monnier
2011-11-04 19:10 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-11-04 20:56 ` Paul Eggert
2011-11-05 22:08 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-11-06 2:34 ` Paul Eggert
2011-11-06 12:37 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-11-07 1:13 ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-29 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-22 8:44 ` Emacs bzr memory footprint Sven Joachim
2011-10-22 11:57 ` Carsten Mattner
2011-10-23 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-25 17:35 ` Nix
2011-10-25 20:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-25 20:34 ` Nix
2011-10-26 14:52 ` gnutls memory leak [Was: Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint] Chong Yidong
2011-10-27 6:10 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-27 22:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-28 12:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-28 17:29 ` Nix
2011-10-27 22:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-13 21:23 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2011-10-14 13:04 ` Emacs bzr memory footprint Carsten Mattner
2011-10-14 18:13 ` James Cloos
2011-10-17 20:52 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-17 23:34 ` James Cloos
2011-10-18 7:24 ` Andreas Schwab
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